rax: A JavaScript repository from flappymonkey

A universal React-compatible render engine.

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Rax is a universal JavaScript library with a largely React-compatible API. If you use React, you already know how to use Rax.

⚡ Fast: blazing fast virtual DOM.

🎯 Tiny: 8.0 KB minified + gzipped.

🎨 Universal: works in browsers, Weex, Node.js and could works more container that implement driver specification.

Quick Start

Install the Rax CLI tools to init project:

npm install rax-cli -g
rax init YourProjectName

Start local server to launch project:

cd YourProjectName
npm run start

Examples

import {createElement, Component, render} from 'rax';
import Text from 'rax-text';

class Hello extends Component {
  render() {
    return [
      <Text style={styles.title}>Hello Rax</Text>,
      <Text style={styles.title}>Hello {this.props.name}</Text>,
    ];
  }
}

const styles = {
  title: {
    color: '#ff4400',
    fontSize: 48,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
  }
};

render(<Hello name="world" />);

More examples take a look at the examples folder:

Rax Renderers

🚥 rax-test-renderer: Rax renderer for snapshot testing.
💻 rax-server-renderer: Rax renderer for server-side render.

Rax Drivers

🌏 driver-browser: A driver for webkit browser.
🚅 driver-weex: A driver for weex container.
🚜 driver-server: A driver for server-side render.
🚌 driver-webgl: A driver for 3d render.

Compatible with React Components

Usage with Webpack or Babel makes React-based components work with Rax, without any code changes.

Usage with Webpack

Add an alias for react and react-dom:

{
  // ...
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      'react': 'rax',
      'react-dom': 'rax',
      // Not necessary unless you consume a module using `createClass`
      'create-react-class': "rax/lib/createClass"
    }
  }
  // ...
}

Usage with Babel

Install the babel plugin for aliasing: npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-module-resolver

Add an alias for react and react-dom in your .babelrc:

{
  // ...
  "plugins": [
    ["module-resolver", {
      "root": ["."],
      "alias": {
        "react": "rax",
        "react-dom": "rax",
        // Not necessary unless you consume a module using `createClass`
        "create-react-class": "rax/lib/createClass"
      }
    }]
  ]
  // ...
}

Developer Tools

React Developer Tools: Allow you inspect and modify the state of your Rax components at runtime in Chrome Developer Tools.

Redux DevTools extension: Provide power-ups for your Redux development workflow.
1. Use the rax-redux module in your app
2. Simply replace code follow the Redux DevTools extension usage doc

Contributing

Want to file a bug, contribute some code, or improve documentation? Excellent! Read up on our guidelines for contributing.

Development Workflow

After cloning rax, run npm install to fetch its dependencies.
Run npm run setup link and bootstrap project before development. Then, you can run several commands: